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392 - History's Worst Popes

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The Devil's Beverage

Some Catholics urged Pope Clement VII to ban coffee, calling it the devil's beverage. He tasted it and remarked that the drink was quote, 'so delicious' It would be a sin to let only misbelievers drink it - he liked it all round. The Pope has 120,000 pieces of art in his Vatican City residence.

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